İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. s. zor, güç, müşkül; aşılması zor. korkunç, ürkütücü, korkutucu; yenmesi güç, zorlu, çetin. korkunç. korkunç. s. zor, güç, müşkül; aşılması zor. dişli, korkunç, tüyler ürpertici, müthiş, heybetli, zorlu, zor. korkunç, heybetli.
2. zorlu, korkunç, heybetli, dişli, müthiş, zor, tüyler ürpertici.
3. korkunç. ürkütücü. korkutucu. yenmesi güç. zorlu. çetin.
4. ürkütücü. müthiş. dehşetli. zorlu. yenmesi güç.
5. korkunç.

Etymology : Middle English, from Latin formidabilis, from formidare to fear, from formido terror, bogey; akin to Greek mormO bogey
Pronunciation : 'for-m&-d&-b&l; fo
Function : adjective
Date : 15th century

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1. frightening, causing fear; difficult, discouraging, intimidating; awesome; powerful. formidable\for"mi*da*ble\ , a. [l. formidabilis, fr. formidare to fear, dread: cf. f. formidable.] exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. they seemed to fear the formodable sight. i swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see: so many pages behind. --drydn.
2. Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal".
3. If you describe something or someone as formidable, you mean that you feel slightly frightened by them because they are very great or impressive. We have a formidable task ahead of us Marsalis has a formidable reputation in both jazz and classical music.